A review by nursenell
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter by Sharyn McCrumb

5.0

This story is set in the Appalachia of eastern Tennessee. There are several stories within the story but they come together as one. There's a lot of sadness between a murder-suicide of 4 family members, the madness of the 2 children not killed, the death by fire of a young mom, the cancer death of a man fighting a giant paper company that's polluting the river, the minister's wife giving birth to a stillborn while her husband is in Desert Storm, and a sheriff fighting his own PTSD from Viet Nam yet what comes through is the strong resiliency of the survivors. And seeing all of it from her home atop the mountain is Nora Bonesteel, an elderly woman with the gift of seeing things before they happen.